And the new movie targeting the Halloween crowd, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, didn’t even crack the top 10.
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The point is that Burnt sits pretty much at the rock-bottom of Cooper’s career, and Our Brand Is Crisis is definitely Bullock’s career nadir.
Pictures shows, Ann Dowd, from left, as Nell, Sandra Bullock as Jane and Reynaldo Pacheco as Eddie, in Warner Bros.
“Our Brand is Crisis”, a political satire about a spin-doctor navigating a Latin American presidential election, is the worst wide release opening of Bullock’s career, sliding in below 1996’s “Two If By Sea” with $4.7 million. That gives them an estimated weekend total of $US5.04 million and $US3.43 million, respectively.
They do, however, reinforce once more the new normal in Hollywood that movie stars can not “open” a movie based purely on their drawing power alone – a lesson Cooper’s learned already this year with his May flop Aloha. The Weinstein Company distributed the critically scorched dramedy. Both films debuted on Halloween weekend that fell at a particularly rough time on the calendar.
Ridley Scott’s 3-D space adventure “The Martian” held on to first place for the fourth weekend in the last five weeks with $11.4 million. Bridge of Spies, which reunites Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, took third again with an estimated $8.1 million and a domestic total of $45.2 million.
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The adaptation of the popular R.L. Stine book series “Goosebumps“, starring Jack Black, was in second place, grabbing almost $10 million from the weekend. And Sony’s Hotel Transylvania sequel placed No. 4 in its sixth weekend with roughly $5.7 million for a pleasing domestic tally of roughly $156 million. The film, which cost about $20 million to make, received a B-minus grading from audience polling firm Cinemascore and a 29% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Both pictures are part of an experiment that allows Paramount to debut the films digitally 17 days after it leaves most theaters in return for cutting exhibitors like AMC in on a cut of the home entertainment revenue. And in January, American Sniper, starring Cooper as real-life Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, opened wide to a record-setting $107.2 million over the four-day Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, going on to gross $350 million in North America, and $547.3 million worldwide. Because many major theater chains opted out, films like Scouts Guide and last weekend’s Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension debuted in far fewer theaters.
